Chief of Staff

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +3 more countries.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with the Head of Talent to develop and expand ElevenLabs’ global Talent organization.

• Determine priorities, assess trade-offs, and convert decisions into actionable plans, designated owners, and measurable outcomes.

• Provide an informed viewpoint on organizational investments and transformations.

• Foster alignment with Talent leaders and cross-functional partners, ensuring successful execution.

• Engage with teams or projects that require additional leadership, expertise, or operational capacity.

• Identify obstacles to progress and spearhead hiring initiatives, enhance processes, or assist functions during transitions.

• Enhance capabilities and guarantee clear ownership with sustainable transitions.

• Drive high-profile strategic initiatives endorsed by the Head of Talent and senior leadership.

• Create sourcing experiments and focused talent campaigns.

• Transform initial concepts into targeted experiments and determine what should be scaled, adapted, or discontinued based on evidence.

• Enhance collaboration and decision-making within the Talent organization.

• Recognize opportunities by leveraging hiring data and firsthand experience.

• Convert effective strategies into repeatable processes, including improved utilization of tools and AI.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive talent expertise and experience assisting a global organization in managing hypergrowth effectively.

• Proven experience supporting hundreds to thousands of hires each year across various regions and time zones.

• Insight into how hiring, team size, and business complexity must adapt as the organization scales.

• Ability to shape strategic direction and deliver work directly.

• Capability to counsel executives on challenging trade-offs.

• Skill in developing plans from vague briefs.

• Competence in conducting in-depth analyses of searches, processes, or teams and addressing underlying issues.

• Experience managing teams, functions, or intricate talent initiatives with clear accountability for outcomes.

• Ability to quickly build trust and lead through influence or direct ownership.

• Sound judgment in knowing when to intervene, coach, or delegate ownership back.

• Experience delivering high-visibility projects involving senior executive stakeholders.

• Capacity to introduce structure, urgency, and sound judgment to shifting priorities.

• Ability to constructively challenge ideas and test them practically.

• Proficiency in clearly communicating progress, results, and necessary decisions.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual discretionary professional development stipend.

• Annual discretionary stipend for social travel to connect with colleagues.

• Annual company offsite.

• Monthly co-working stipend for employees located away from a main hub.

• Remote-first work arrangement.

• Global team environment.

• Growth opportunities beyond the immediate role and responsibilities.